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Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-em-up released by Capcom in the arcades in 1989. Mike Haggar, a former wrestler and the new mayor of Metro City, sets out with Cody and Guy to rescue his daughter Jessica from the Mad Gear gang. 2 players fight at once, each of the 3 heroes has his own style, and the streets yield knives, pipes and katanas as well... 28

Championship Sprint is a top-down arcade racing game developed and released in 1986 by the American company Atari Games as the follow-up to its Super Sprint coin-op. Of its 8 single-screen tracks 5 are new and 3 come from the predecessor, with ramps, bridges, gates and short cuts. On the cabinet 2 players race against computer-driven cars and trade... 39

Super Sprint is an arcade racing game developed and released in 1986 by the American company Atari Games as the successor to its Sprint 2 coin-op. Each of the 8 tracks fits on a single screen seen from above, and up to 3 players race on the cabinet at once against computer-driven cars. Oil slicks, puddles, traffic cones and small tornadoes wait on... 41

Tournament Arkanoid is a 1987 arcade game made for American arcades by Taito America Corporation and distributed by Romstar. It plays exactly like the original Arkanoid: the Vaus craft bounces an energy ball into walls of bricks and catches the same capsules for a laser, a sticky catch or a ball split into 3. All 32 rounds, however, were given new... 230

RoboCop 2 is a side-scrolling action platformer based on the 1990 film, published for home computers by the British company Ocean Software. The cyborg RoboCop destroys stocks of the drug Nuke, rescues hostages and hunts down the dealer Cain, with a firing range and a memory puzzle between levels. The record covers the Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum,... 1459

Gun.Smoke is a 1985 vertical scrolling run & gun shooter arcade game by Capcom in which the screen scrolls upward automatically and players only have three ways to shoot, using three buttons for left, right, and center shooting. The player can also change the way the gunman shoots through button combinations. This Western-themed game was designed by... 2150

RoboCop is an action game between a beat 'em up and a run-and-gun, developed by Data East after Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film and released to arcades in 1988. The player walks the cyborg RoboCop side-on through Detroit, punching, shooting, collecting stronger weapons and facing bosses such as the ED-209 robot, with a first-person target range between... 6273

Strider (Strider Hiryū in Japan) is a 1989 side-scrolling platform game released for the CP System arcade hardware by Capcom. Strider is set in a dystopian future in the year 2048, where a mysterious dictator known as the "Grandmaster" rules over the world. Hiryu, the youngest ever Super A Ranked member of an organization of high-tech ninja-like agents... 603

Dragon Breed (Doragon Burīdo) is a horizontally scrolling shooter video game produced by Irem and released in arcades in 1989. It runs on M72 and M81 hardware. Activision released home computer ports in 1990. The player controls King Kayus, who rides a large dragon named Bahamoot. Bahamoot is immune to enemy attacks, capable of blocking most projectiles... 768

Wonder Boy (Wandā Bōi) is a 1986 platform game published by Sega and developed by Escape (now known as Westone Bit Entertainment). Originally designed for arcades, it was later ported to the SG-1000, Master System and Game Gear consoles by Sega, and to the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC home computers by Activision. The titular Wonder Boy... 27486

Ghosts 'n Goblins (Makai-mura) is a run and gun platform game created by Tokuro Fujiwara and developed by Capcom, released in arcades on September 19, 1985. The series has subsequently been ported to and released on a variety of game consoles and mobile platforms and spawned several sequels and spin-offs. The player controls a knight, named Sir Arthur,... 16671

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1989 arcade game released by Konami and based on the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series that began airing two years earlier. In the game, up to four players control the titular Ninja Turtles, fighting through various levels to defeat the turtles' enemies, including the Shredder, Krang and the Foot Clan.... 3733

Haunted Castle (Akumajō Dracula) is a side-scrolling platform game released by Konami for the arcades in 1987. The game is an adaptation of the original Castlevania, but is not a direct port of the NES version. Rather, it is a new game running on custom JAMMA-based hardware. The game has the player controlling Simon Belmont, who embarks on a journey... 1914

Lemmings is an action-puzzle game developed by the Scottish studio DMA Design and published by Psygnosis in 1991, originally for the Commodore Amiga. The player guides swarms of mindless, self-endangering lemmings to safety by assigning eight different skills to individual creatures — from digging and bridge-building to self-sacrifice by explosion.... 758

Frogger is a 1981 arcade game developed by Konami and originally published by Sega. Frogger was positively received as one of the greatest video games ever made and followed by several clones and sequels. The game found its way into popular culture, including television and music. The object of the game is to direct frogs to their homes one by one... 8046

Ninja Gaiden, released in Japan as Ninja Ryūkenden (Legend of the Ninja Dragon Sword) and as Shadow Warriors in Europe, is a side-scrolling cinematic action-platformer. Tecmo developed and published it for the NES; its development and release coincided with the beat 'em up arcade version of the same name. The story follows a ninja named Ryu Hayabusa... 1661

Ajax (A Jax or A-Jax) is a vertically scrolling shooter released in arcades by Konami in December 1987. Similar to Contra and its "Gryzor", there was a European release of the game called Typhoon, which is the name used for Imagine Software's ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64 ports. The players control a "Tom Tiger" helicopter (in the 2D stage)... 565

Ajax (A Jax or A-Jax) is a vertically scrolling shooter released in arcades by Konami in December 1987. Similar to Contra and its "Gryzor", there was a European release of the game called Typhoon, which is the name used for Imagine Software's ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64 ports. The players control a "Tom Tiger" helicopter (in the 2D stage)... 757

Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union on an Elektronika 60. This is the version licensed by Russian company Elektronorgtechnica (Elorg) in 1988 to Atari - arcade coin-op machines, and Nintendo - home consoles and handhelds. The game features a standard endless mode, as... 20451

Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union on an Elektronika 60. This is a port of Tetris for Arcade machines and Genesis/Mega Drive home consoles, developed by SEGA in 1988. The goal is to place pieces made up of four tiles in a ten-by-twenty well, organizing them into complete... 5122